Poverty - The Silent Threat.

Poverty - The Silent Threat.

Extreme poverty means not having enough food, water and fuel for heating or cooking, as well as adequate housing, health care and education.

Poverty affects more than 1 billion people, and the tendency is to increase in the near future.

Many feel that there is something very wrong and unfair in a world in which one in seven people live in extreme poverty, while billions of others enjoy prosperity like never before.

What can be done about this?

Helping poor nations out of poverty proved more difficult than rich nations to help recover from war or an economic recession, like we currently live in Europe.

Cycles of poverty are complex and difficult to break.

For example, the disease causes poverty and poverty causes disease.

Undernourished children may become so weak physically and mentally that when adults are not able to care for their own children.

Furthermore, when rich countries dump surplus food in poor countries as aid against hunger, this kind of help makes local farmers and merchants go bankrupt, which creates more poverty.

Send money to poor countries may initiate another cycle. Why?

Because this kind of help is easy to steal, which can lead to corruption, and corruption, in turn, can lead to more poverty.

Basically, foreign aid does not work because it eliminates the major cause of poverty.

So what is the main cause of poverty in the 21st century?

Extreme poverty exists because nations, governments, politicians, merchants and others act only to promote and protect their own interests.

For example, governments of rich countries give little priority to the issue of ending poverty in the world because they are democratically elected and need to look after the interests of their constituents.

Thus, prohibiting farmers from poor countries to sell their production to the rich farmers in rich countries do not suffer losses.

Moreover, governments of rich countries give high subsidies to their farmers to help them sell more than those of poor countries.

It is obvious that the cause of poverty is the tendency that people and governments have to protect their own interests, is caused by the greed and selfishness of man.

Regards

JCarlos Ferrão

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Learn to live longer and better

People who develop good health habits not only live longer, but their failure is delayed and restricted to fewer years at the end of life, says The New England Journal of Medicine.

The first obstacle can be the change habits related to eating, drinking, sleeping, smoking and exercise.

What are your exercise habits?

Daily exercise done in moderation can be a great help.

Thirty minutes a day of moderate activity is a good target. But you do not need to exercise for 30 minutes at once.

Three exercise sessions of 10 minutes each produce the same benefits that a single session of 30 minutes of the same exercise.

Of course it is wise to consult your doctor before starting an exercise program.

Studies show that simple exercises in and around the house, help the elderly regain vigor and vitality.

Tests done after a good exercise program revealed that the muscle strength of the participants more than doubled.

Another group consisting mostly of sedentary women over 70 years exercised twice a week. After a year, had gains in muscle mass, strength, balance and bone density.

The results of several scientific studies about aging and exercise, well demonstrate that physical exercise slows aging, prolongs life and shortens the period of dependency that so often precedes death.

Mental exercises.

 Although some degree of forgetfulness is proper aging, studies show that aged brain remains flexible enough to cope with the effects of aging.

Therefore, seniors can continue to have a mental activity extremely rich and healthy.

The brain consists of 100 billion brain cells, or neurons, and trillions of connections between them. These connections act as telephone lines that allow neurons "talk" with one another to create, among other things, memory.As the aging brain, neurons die.

However, the aged brains are able to compensate for neuronal loss. When a neuron is silent, its neighbors respond by making new connections with other neurons and taking on the work of the neuron lost.

Thus, the brain actually transfers the responsibility for a given task to another region of the brain. Therefore, many older people perform the same mental tasks than younger people, but may use different parts of the brain to do this.

HOW TO KEEP THE MENTAL FLEXIBILITY?

Scientific studies involving thousands of seniors have found several factors that help keep the mind flexible elderly.

Some are:

Active dedication to things like reading, travel, cultural events, education, clubs and associations.

Make the largest possible number of different things.

Do not drop your work.

Do not retire.

Turn off the TV.

Make some progress.

 It is believed that such activity either raises the spirit or also reactivates the brain.

Therefore, it is never too late to start building good habits.

Social environment.

Their social environment is composed of people with whom you live, work, eat and have fun.

 Your physical environment improves when you have access to treated water, similarly, can improve their social environment when you have access to value-mates, just to mention one of the main factors.

Divide the joys and sorrows, dreams and frustrations with other low obstacle environment and can help you get further in the race.

But the opposite is also true.

Lack of companionship can cause loneliness and social death.

The person tends to wither if not receive signals of interest that surround it. Unfortunately, this situation is typical of many older people, especially in the western world.

Many of them live in a social environment that tolerates, but does not appreciate them.

Therefore, loneliness is a major circumstance that constantly threatens the well-being of the elderly in the developed world.

You may not be able to eliminate the circumstances that make it vulnerable to loneliness, such as mandatory retirement, declining mobility, the loss of old friends or death of a spouse, but even then you can take certain steps to reduce this obstacle to a workable height.

For starters, remember that loneliness is not caused by old age; in fact there are young people who are already in a state of loneliness.

The cause of the problem is not being old, but being socially isolated.

What can you do to avoid falling into isolation?

Look up interest for what others like.

Ask questions.

To the extent possible, be generous. If you have few material possessions, give to you, there is joy in giving.

Write letters.

Have a hobby.

 Accept invitations to visit other people or to hang out with them.

 Keep cheerful and warm your home. Help other people.

 In conclusion have listed below some healthy reminders for older people

 Have a balanced diet, including fruits and vegetables.

 If you drink alcohol, do so in moderation.

 Do not smoke. Never too late to stop.

 Exercise regularly. Consult a physician before starting an exercise program.

 Do not isolate yourself from family and friends.

 Stay active at work, at leisure and in the community.

 Have a positive attitude towards life.

 Do things that leave happy.

 Make periodic health examinations.

By changing your habits, improve the environment and health care, the man actually managed to increase the average life span and life expectancy.

By following these counties may have a practical life more meaningful and happy.

Regards

JCarlos Ferrão